Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Mechanisms Practice Question.

For this (sketched) situation,

1. Draw the system diagram

2. Calculate the linear speed of the load.

1 comment:

  1. Here are the answers, forgive the lack of boxes and system boundary as these are not possible in a comment box! All parts of the physical system should be in boxes and in the system boundary, the real life inputs and outputs are not in boxes and outside the system boundary.

    electrical energy > motor > Mechanical system > bucket > linear motion

    2. The comment also won't properly space out the working! But here are the equations etc you should use.

    VR = 10/40 x 10/15
    = 1/6 (or 0.167)

    SPEEDdrum = SPEEDmotor x VR
    = 500 x 1/6
    = 83.3 rev/min
    = 1.39 rev/sec

    C = Pi x D
    = 3.14 x 250
    = 785mm
    = 0.785m

    SPEEDrope = SPEEDdrum x C
    = 1.39 x 0.785
    = 1.09 m/s

    VR = 1/2 with 2 ropes

    SPEEDload = SPEEDrope x VR
    = 1.09 x 1/2
    = 0.55 m/s

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